Borja Jiménez toasts in Lima for his friend Fernando Oliva Murube, who died in the La Algaba traffic accident

11/11/2024

Updated at 1:43 p.m.

Borja Jiménez toasted the sky of Lima this Sundaywhere he sought to reconnect with the gaze of his close friend Fernando Oliva Murubea young man from Seville who a few hours before had lost his life in a traffic accident that occurred in the A-66 highwayamong the municipalities of Santiponce and La Algabawhen a driver traveling in the opposite direction crashed into the front of the car that this 27-year-old was driving. Along with him, two more relatives remain seriously injured.

This tragic news was known hours before Borja Jiménez put on the suit of lights in the Acho bullring (Lima, Peru)where he would do his confirmation as a bullfighter. The right-hander from Espartinas offered to the sky that first task, in which he achieved one of the two ears with which he ended his afternoon, finally on the shoulders of the Peruvian fans. There was a special bond between Borja and Fernando, who shared hobbies for bullfighting, hunting and the countryside, Both even went on to study Agricultural Technical Engineering. While one continued with bullfighting as a profession, the other had already established a reputation as a consultant and manager of agricultural and livestock farms.

Fernando Oliva Murube started in the world of bullfighting as student of the bullfighting school of Seville-Amatein addition to perfecting his technique through his friendship with the teacher Emilio Muñozwith whom he usually trained at the María Luisa Park. After leaving the world of bullfighting professionally, it was common to see him in the stands on the afternoons when Borja Jiménez was bullfighting, whom he carried on his shoulders in his first big door at Las Ventas at the 2023 Autumn Fair and whom he will continue to support since the little balcony of heaven. Rest in peace, bullfighter.